India's Cradle Baby scheme hopes to end female infanticide

[FarCenter]

SALEM, India, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unwanted infant girls in the sterile, sparsely furnished nursery rooms of the Life Line Trust orphanage in Tamil Nadu state, southern India, are considered the lucky ones.

They are India's "Cradle Babies" - products of a government project that permits parents to give unwanted baby girls anonymously to the state, saving them from possible death in a region where daughters are seen as a burden and where their murder is a common reality.

"Often babies are found in ditches and garbage pits. Some are alive, others are dead," said A. Devaki, a government child protection officer in the Salem district, one of the worst-afflicted areas.

"Just last week, we found a newborn baby girl barely breathing in a dustbin at the local bus stand."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/03/us-india-cradlebabies-idUSBRE9B206P20131203

[warrant46]

1. A few subhumaoid creatures can really ruin the image of a country

[get the red out]

3. Absolutely

Sub-sentient really, I haven't heard of many animals who kill their young based on gender.

[warrant46]

4. Where is the so Called religion that condones this ?

Where is a so called government that allows their female children in the image of their mothers to be killed in such a fashion.

[emsimon33]

7. Trust me...there is a lot more that ruins the image of India!

Of all the places I have visited on this earth--and there have been a lot--India is the biggest shit hole! The corruption and arrogance is beyond belief. "Slum Dog Millionaire" did a good job of capturing India. It is a nice idea gone very bed (but most of the people are very nice).

[niyad]

2. no war on women, eh?

[JI7]

5. wasn't there some study done which showed sexual assaults and female population were connected

areas where people aborted or killed a child because she was female also had higher numbers of sexual assaults.

[kiva]

6. I find it terrifying that it seems to be getting worse:

"Other parents kill girls or fail to save them from preventable diseases, leading to alarmingly skewed child gender ratios. There were 919 girls to every 1,000 boys in 2011 compared with 976 in 1961, says the Census of India."